civilians are bearing the brunt as israel continues to pound gaza with a ground invasion despite international efforts to mediate peace. this comes as tel aviv maintains it's not targeting civilians and its bombing campaign is highly precise. the rebranded syrian opposition gets a royal welcome in france as the e.u. is expected to discuss whether to openly send weapons to. the u.k. government's budget handling is on the far after it's revealed the billions of pounds spent on bank bailouts all go down the drain.

with international news and comment twenty four hours a day the death toll from the escalating israeli bombardment has risen to at least forty five after four days of hostilities of those killed are said to be civilians and as israel prepares a ground invasion the militants are hitting back with rocket attacks. the latest now from tel aviv. what we are witnessing is a growing casualty count and what we see is that many of the dead and injured are in fact palestinian civilians not tell of it is struggling to explain this particularly in light of the fact that they argue that all they killings are targeted we have heard from the arab league secretary general not been the other being he says that tel aviv is committing war crimes that should not go unpunished he adds to those that all arab nations should reassess any kind of peace treaties that they have with the jewish state we also heard from the egyptian foreign

minister who pledged to keep the rougher border crossing between egypt and gaza open we are also witnessing an increase of a flurry of activity from the international community we have heard for instance from the turkish prime minister that he has spoken with both the russian and the american leadership and he is putting forward a proposal that would seem to work in egypt the united states and russia called for and managed to broker some old ten years cease fires between both israel and gaza now also on saturday the to misinform minister was in gaza to show support for the hamas leadership we also see egypt playing an increasing nearly three role but of course cairo has a very delicate balance to walk with on the one hand supporting and reflecting the will of the egyptian people which is see themselves as brothers of those that live in gaza while on the other hand not annoying its international backers such as washington it certainly seems as if a ground invasion is not far off we have witnessed

a flurry of activity along the israel gaza border where we have seen israel firing increasing rounds of ammunition from tanks and armored personnel vehicles that have been positioned and moved along the border over the past few days we've also heard from israeli officials who've been meeting with foreign diplomats and they say that they plan to extend their operations so this does seem to indicate that a ground offensive could be in the made. king we also know that all the roads around gaza have now been sealed and again this would be another indicator that there is some kind of program on the ground that would see an invasion they were earlier some seventy five thousand israeli reservists who pulled up for g.t.c. certainly the same as one gets and i get into these raids on the ground just a matter of hours if not days before we will witness some kind of ground offensive in gaza it is worth noting though that according to the israeli count there have been some four hundred and fifty missiles that have landed in southern israel

particularly southern israel since this whole operation began back on wednesday but only on saturday i was here in tel aviv when the missiles sounded and people ran for cover and it turned out that the iron dome battery which had been deployed only earlier only a few hours early on saturday had managed to intercept a long range ukrainian most self so we are witnessing longer range missiles and managing to reach further into the jewish state and that is sending panic particularly in cities like tel aviv that will further inland the i think here on the chief has also called for an increase in the pace of airstrikes and this comes off to masturbate strikes on saturday morning so all the government buildings of the hamas leadership be completely destroyed and that is the same building where just a day earlier the egyptian prime minister had made it and when he was in gaza at this building right now essentially is an island of rubble he had hoped and soaking many of hope that they would be a cease fire in place now the israelis do deny the fact that they broke that cease

fire but we have heard from her muscles on the ground that during that period of the so-called cease fire at least two palestinians were killed so there doesn't really seem to be any kind of real determination to actually bring this violence and this fighting to an end any time soon. earlier i spoke with the israeli defense ministry spokesman josh hanlon who gave no clear explanation why civilians are being killed in what he called highly precise bombings but when hamas are hiding rockets beneath mosques and hiding rockets and missiles within schoolyards and firing rockets actually next to the very hotel where most of the foreign correspondents are staying we just have to look at all the reports coming out across the world today unfortunately it's a very very difficult predicament and that's why the israeli government uses the most precise munitions is why the israeli army since flies out to the population even before we conduct these precision strikes a lot of minimize civilian amber alert what those precise munitions are doing to

the people of gaza we managed to speak to several girls and says civilians who are suffering in this bombing campaign in a moment here's what they had to say let's have a listen. and then the civilian population here is. in every house there are about twenty people until quarter to six everyone was asleep after daniel asked to begin shaking this entire area about sixteen killings were bombing innocent harmless people many were injured my family had four injured. and we were listening to the news to find out what's going on in gaza. yesterday we slipped through because we wanted to risk what we walk up and rubbed in their brothers you think god or a lot of but what should we do now the roof collapsed walls are destroyed the children under the rubble as they were doing and. we were all sleeping on the parents and me with my sisters in a sixteen missile hits our house we were taken to hospital thank god you're alive

but that's how it was going on so what do you say to these people in gaza. well first of all i'd like to point out that actually last night and every night but in particular last night even in the middle of the mission we had air force jets that were flying over and they had a precise target ready to be hit and the hamas organization or other organizations in the region aboard civilians to the location and we diverted the attack we are doing our utmost to protect civilians on both sides while hamas is going out of its way to not only put their own civilians in harm but attack our civilians on a day to day basis. and filmmaker an activist harry fear who's in gaza told me israel is using terror tactics in its ground offensive against palestinians. this is taking a death toll up to now forty five confirmed dead gardens in less than four days the true answer to why is because israel has its mission it has its objective it's got the people that it wants to kill but the thing is it doesn't care about collateral

damage it has the same policy if you like the united states with regard to collateral damage that it's happy to injure dozens of palestinian men women and children as long as it can kill one person who might have helped fire a rocket into israel the food a provision is regular. normal cycle we'll see if there's interruption of that at the next handouts asked for health though the situation is very severe in this respect that the resistance groups here feel that they have to do something to send a message to israel that it will pay some price if it continues to spill palestinian blood in this way from regional partners they're getting some support i'm talking about the resistance efforts now the general gazan population are getting regional support which is manifest and actually improved recent months and years we're seeing egypt turkey russia except for providing a rhetorical and diplomatic support for the garzon population here who is being

besieged and bombed. activists in syria say rebels have taken control of an airport in the country's east after days of heavy fighting against government forces this comes as france says it will accept an ambassador from the new syrian opposition group the national coalition is the latest western tactic to remove president assad talks in paris focused on the protection of rebel controlled areas aid to refugees and the need for a provisional government britain which also lobbies for the new coalition if your could follow france and turkey in recognizing. them on monday the e.u. is expected to discuss official arms deliveries to the country's rebels and this is have been fighting against the syrian army for the two years now with about one hundred people being killed today in the jealous neil clark has told me that libya mark two is underway. what we do is we get together some opposition puppets if you

like not their heads together call them the government of libya and syria and then we work to end the arms embargoes and very soon we'll be hearing talk i expect no fly zones this is all part of a plan to topple assad the western powers actually glaring it's ok for us to are the rebels in syria but to anybody else to arm the syrians it's not allowed so it's absolutely appalling the a policy we have the constitutional boat back in eighty seven percent syrians voted for it we had elections in may you know there is a every possibility of a change in syria through the ballot box but the west don't want that because they know the president said he's too popular. probably majority support in syria the last time they want is the people's will in syria to prevail they want to impose by force a puppet government. and you know what would happen at libya is that if a saudi's toppled we have lost in syria more chaos we have more death and

destruction but the west doesn't really care about that he doesn't care what's happening in libya at the moment all he cares about is a new government in damascus which with many ties the entire economy the links with iran and hezbollah and all that you know the move against iraq to take place because this is all about paving the way toward it there are. a top flight russian premier league game is be maad by van it's going to leave a child fans hit a goalkeeper with a rocket. plus with the euro zone officially back in recession we report and how in some of the better off countries it's the elderly who take in the financial this symbol just ahead. things are just getting too expensive in london many families just can't afford to

live in the city anymore so because of upcoming welfare cuts the government is buying or rented property to relocate people outside of the city the maximum housing allowance from welfare will go down to four hundred pounds a month which is peanuts compared to the one thousand two hundred fifty pounds the need to pay for the average three room apartment expelling the poor from london seems a bit fishy to me so instead of say regulating prices or cock forbid using the money from the welfare cuts to create jobs so people can earn a living for themselves rather than rely on handouts london has decided to make itself some official get to. what is to call a place where everyone from a certain economic classes forcibly shove to although this may sound like some sort of help from the government it seems to me like a means to get rid of the poor rather than trying to make the poor less poor but that's just my opinion.

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these continues here in r.t. the u.k.'s government's handling of its bang bang out says come on the fierce criticism of it was claimed the sixty six billion pounds spent to rescued lloyds t.s.b. in the world bank of scotland may never be recovered the report from n.b.c. says the british taxpayer has already lost two billion keeping another financial institution afloat the surface ripples this is all focused around the public accounts committee its investigation into the sale of no of the rope that was the bank that if you close your mind a couple of years back was one of the first to get that is that big banking bailout is estimated to friends. northern rock for taxpayers a set of these around thirty billion but that's not the worst of it because of yes and lloyds bank oh also had a lot of typos money funded into those bailouts and the taxpayers could be set to

release a staggering sixty six billion pounds on that is very very hard to wrap your head around those figures so we're going to try and compare it really the amount that was put into those bailouts to what we have in the moment spending on social welfare such as pensions education health care and defense these figures coming at a time when everyone here is struggling in a daily we're talking to people who are really struggling to survive in the country in the midst of this very very tough economic times and you kind of got this it was a good report very hard hitting report telling us that there was a monumental collective failure that the treasury was unable to pull the respond because they look like bills and understanding so it really cuts a little bit of the billion sorry guys we've lost that the sixty six billion you know we weren't quite up to the job one of the great the warning at the very beginning with the taxpayers in line and doing now by

a campaign manager robert oxley thank you for joining us today these types of stories always make me so angry because you know every day we're covering stories with people you know struggling with a living wage in the a chance the pensions the tax is a rising all the time and then you have this report showing that you know sixty six billion could be lost i mean it's just cheating irresponsible with taxpayers' money well this report is a damning indictment of politicians despite their woolly words that we were going to make money out of the banks and the proper banks would be you know it would be ok if there was a chorus of people from both sides the political voice so you know we need to parallel park. what's happened is we've lost billions of pounds and we've basically allowed politicians. gamble other people's money and lo and behold those politicians haven't got very good results as is always the case when politicians are spending other people's money it's incredible how often those in power manage to get every major crisis wrong and i think we're seeing the moment in

a rejection of the way that our politics at westminster is out of touch to the point here is it was the writing was on the wall whether any lessons will actually be learned of course remains to be seen but taxpayers they think they absolutely whopping losses at the moment at least a lot of people saying you know we saved the banks he's going to save us. now let's have a quick look at some other stories making news this hour in our world update at least fifty children are being killed after a train crashed into a school bus south of the egyptian capital a local doctor said that many of the victims were aged between four and six accident happened because the railroad crossing wasn't closed while the train sped towards it egypt's transport minister has resigned following the crash. thousands of greeks run it in athens in commemoration of a bloody student uprising in one nine hundred seventy three against the then ruling military junta protesters marched peacefully to the u.s. embassy the american flag accusing the nation of having backed the past dictatorship demonstrators also expressed anger over another round of pension cuts approved by parliament this month secure

a new bailout. despite the looming economic trouble in the eurozone one of its biggest economies france has always been promised or praise i should say is the promise land for the retard however with the single currency zone hit with the second recession things are changing fast as. reports. when you look at the elderly people in france you'd never think they could be in trouble there has been a common belief that france is one of the best countries in the world for pensioners and that they are very well cared for by the state but with the financial crisis raging across the european union and france being no exception to that more and more of the retired are finding it harder to make ends meet here worked as an engineer for over four decades having retired he says he sometimes cannot afford to buy food with your spirit. six. months early to live. six or. so for.

a lot of trouble. most people say you have to. have sixty euros or how can you survive in circumstances like piers is. but hundreds of thousands of pensioners across the country are in the same boat say the chairman of a large charity which is trying to help. the number of seniors. has increased considerably in regions of france it used to be only in the north but now all regions are of young people and children used to help but now with the crisis hitting the young seniors upon themselves. but now these struggling people are in for another blow starting next year the pensions of over ten million french will be taxed says the minister for the elderly this will amount to zero point fifteen percent of monthly payments and the new government believes this will generate

three hundred fifty million euros annually for the social security fund but economists believe it's pointless for the government trying to do now is reach by all means three percent deficit threshold that was promised to brussels and they're trying to find like every single penny. obviously countries don't have a say or do harm to the pensioners and to their spending power will be just really bad for consumption in france it will not be a perfect solution for. greeting french growth and beer agrees because in his case every cent counts it may be less than one percent of his pension deducted each month but it still threatens to take food from his mouth alexy rush of ski reporting from paris and france. the russian premier league football clash between moscow and reigning champions and peters but was abandoned after the night was goalkeeper was hit by

a missile thrown from the stands. with the details. and john shewan who is the goalkeeper for has been injured doctors have looked at him and they say that he has been blinded by this incident in five past see in that one i took you back through this matches between st petersburg and moscow took place in the he would be area which is in the moscow region fans from st petersburg started pelting the pitch with fireworks and flares one of those flares or fireworks went off in the face of the goalkeeper he went down on the pitch in pain and then after he was down on the grass and they had stopped the game it is reported that the fans continued to pelt objects at the goalkeeper at that time so the decision was made by the officials and the referees who stopped that game it's unclear whether or not that game will be continued at a later date or if. it will be given a technical defeat if you will now tensions between st petersburg fans and moscow

fans have gone on since around two thousand and eight they've been at a high level at that time there was a banner that was placed at a game in st petersburg that was questionable got fans upset and more recently in september between a game between a torpedo and there was a similar incident with fireworks being thrown onto the field but much worse at that time and in the same month fans then attacked their own headquarters saying that if the team doesn't play better they will start destroying property as well so there's a big problem basically between a football fans and the teams they supposedly support but their actions at this point in time are being more disruptive to the game than being helpful. as of now there are no laws in russia that are designed to protect football teams or to punish fans right now that is being talked about as a possibility in the near future. well coming up after the break lauren list discusses wall street fraud and the latest edition of capital account here on r.t.

in the news continues in thirty five minutes on their. finances day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of story hundred sheep in the mountains and plains of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but he dition and familiar duty dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. has just made camp at their winter farm stage setting up his ute the traditional two fenian round tent made of diskin. back amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving extremes of plus to minus forty degrees celsius just that i use them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my

mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here right now probably so on most of us simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their hearts they hurt the cattle. with people leaving them coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of the herd and more attractive than promising largest subsidies for countries and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day put out to ensure the hard to get the highest fair price i asked sympathizes with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life

day in their publics capital. but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life now looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm but more time on his hands he says matter of fact we can start to look for a new wife. good laboratory to mccurry was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which will unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything turns mission to teach creation why it should care about

humans and. this is why you should care only on the dog. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington to d.c. and today we have a very special show for you combining some of the great on air to exert some of our best recent interviews first stephen called bear is the latest to take on high frequency trading the twitter sphere is been abuzz over his segment on the colbert report earlier on our show this week you heard how c a t c commissioner for children wants more regulations for h f t but today hear what he says to the argument that regulators just need to enforce what's on the books plus author and professor of behavioral economics dan ariely breaks down why executives at wall street firms may feel better about cheating customers if their primary responsibility is to deliver for shareholders and in loose change the wall street

journal reports with elections coming up japan's main opposition leader is stepping up pressure on the good old central bank to ease more and get the country out of deflation and oh politics let's get to days capital accounts. so stephen colbert there recently took on high frequency trading on his show this week in a way only he can here's a highlight. in hard frequency trading computers can move millions of shares around in minutes earning a tenth of a penny off each share and that adds up to serious money when they finally take it

down to the wall street coin store. and he's not the only one you may recall see f.t.c. commissioner bart chilton has been out talking about the need for more regulation to address the potential risks. including on our show he was talking about it now the rules he proposes would require that firms register test their software programs he require kill switches and punish those who violate the law by the second he also told us that two thousand and ten flash crash was a wake up call for watchdogs why has it taken regulators so long even since then to get the ball rolling and why not focus on more aggressively and consistently enforcing the regulations already on the books when it comes to high frequency trading we asked really if you look at it high frequency trading has been around since long before the flash crash that was just the first time we really were made aware of the public at large of what the consequences of it can be but really it's been growing since the eighty's.